{"id":20549,"date":"2017-11-08T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/?page_id=20549"},"modified":"2023-12-07T10:02:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:02:37","slug":"compare-contrast-lebron-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/compare-contrast-lebron-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Compare &#038; Contrast: Lebron James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Compare and Contrast\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>by\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:fbaker1346@aol.com\">Frank W. Baker<\/a><br \/>\nNBA player LeBron James finds himself on the cover (again) of some current popular magazines. Here is another opportunity to infuse media &amp; visual literacy\u00a0\u00a0with your students. Since most states require students to understand &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/what_are_informational_texts.htm\">informational texts<\/a>&#8221; this activity may help them.<br \/>\nHave your students consider the questions below the images.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/lebron_mag_covers_files\/image002.jpg\" alt=\"Mar 12, 2007 | Volume 106, Issue 1\" \/>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Im3_DDT_eKc\/R0v_-frNVdI\/AAAAAAAAAiY\/gnpZh-Ay_tM\/s400\/BLACK-ENTERPRISE-LEBRON+400x.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"280\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gq-better.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gq-better-218x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gq-better-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/gq-better.jpg 465w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 204px) 100vw, 204px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n1. Who are the <strong>audiences<\/strong> for each magazine? What are the clues?<br \/>\n2. Use one or two <strong>adjectives<\/strong> to describe how LeBron looks on each cover.<br \/>\n3. Magazine covers are also considered advertisements. What<strong> techniques<\/strong> does each of the publications use\u00a0to sell themselves to their readers?<br \/>\n4. Notice Lebron\u2019s<strong> body language<\/strong> &amp; non-verbal facial <strong>expressions<\/strong>; what do they say to you?<br \/>\n5. If you could read only one of these publications, which would it be and why?\u00a0In other words, which is most <strong>appealing<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compare and Contrast&nbsp;&nbsp;by&nbsp;Frank W. Baker NBA player LeBron James finds&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25763,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20549\/revisions\/25763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frankwbaker.com\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}